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Original Articles

Time-resolved dose reconstruction by motion encoding of volumetric modulated arc therapy fields delivered with and without dynamic multi-leaf collimator tracking

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Pages 1497-1503 | Received 03 May 2013, Accepted 07 Jun 2013, Published online: 29 Aug 2013

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